Explaining Reasons for Income Inequality

Last week the Census Bureau released the report Household Income Inequality Within U.S. Counties: 2006–2010 providing data on income inequality for all counties in the United States. Their Chosen measure for this analysis is the Gini Index. The calculations were based on five years of American Community Survey household data. On the same day the […]

When Telling the Truth is Telling a Lie

The Republicans have been harping on gas prices for quite some time. Last May they were talking about gas prices doubling under the Obama administration. Today Romney is quoted suggest that the Obama team “talk to…..the folks who are having a hard time filling up their car because the price of gasoline has doubled under […]

How Not to Show a Growth in Income Inequality

The Internal Revenue Service(IRS) recently released a preliminary report on the taxes and income for 2010. CNN took the data from this report in conjunction with the same report from the IRS for 2009 to analyze the growth in income inequality in a report titled “Income goes up…especially for the rich.” The report contains statements […]

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